Stock-collar distender.



PATENTED DEC. 19, 1905. G. V. TUCKER & E. B. AIGUIER.

STOCK COLLAR DISTENDER.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 2. 190s.

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l I @wam/r A TTORNE UNITED STATES PATENT ormoni GEORGE V. TUCKER AND EDWARD B. AIGUIER, OF NEVARK, NEW

JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO RICHARDSON MANUFACTURING COM- PANY, OF NEW'ARK, NEW JERSEY.

STOCK-COLLAR DISTENDEF!ll Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed October 2, 1905. Serial No. 281,012.

1b all 'Lz/'72,0791J t may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE V.TUCKER and EDWARD B. AIGUIER, citizens of the United States, and residents ol Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Stock-Collar Distender, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for distending vertically and supporting so-called stock-collars worn by women,

' the object being to provide a device for this purpose of simple and novel construction for detachable connection with the stock and used in lieu ot' whalebones, wires, or the like, so that after removing the distenders the stock may be readily washed or otherwise cleaned.

Another object is to so arrange the fastening devices that they cannot become detached and lost.

le will describe a stock-collar distender embodying our invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying.

drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stockdistender embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, showing the same as engaging with the sections of a stock; and Fig. 3 is a rear view of the device, parts being shown in section.

The device comprises tubular body members l 2, one of which has interior right and left hand screw-threads. These body members are connected by a cross bar or brace 3, the said bar being rigidly clamped to one body member, while the member having the interior threads is slidable through the bar. This cross-bar, it will be understood, may be omitted without departing from the spirit of our invention; but it will serve in a great measure to 'prevent lateralV strain or movement of the body portions one relatively to the other.

Having movable or sliding' connection with the body members 1 2 are the stock-engaging devices 4 5, each device consisting of a wire or the like bent to substantially U form. One section or member 6 of the part 4 is here shown as rigidly secured in the tubular body member 1, while the other member 7 has a screw-thread for engaging with the thread in the tubular body member 2. The engaging device 5 has one member 8 screw-threaded to engage with the thread in the member 2, while the other member 9 is slidable in the tubular body member 1.

On each sliding member at the end is a loop 10, one of which is designed to engage over the upper edge of the stock, while the other is to engage around the lower edge of the stock. Each loop 10 is provided with a threaded socket member 11, in which a fastening-screw 12 engages. The outer end of each fastening-screw is provided with a button or finger-piece 18, and to prevent the fasteningscrews from being wholly removed from the socket members the inner ends of the screws are provided with collars 14.

In operation it is to be understood that two or more of these devices will be employed. The tubular body portion and the sliding members are arranged at the inner side of the stock, while, as before stated, the loops pass over or around the upper and lower edges of the stock, so that the collars 14 on the screws will engage and clamp against the stock material. By turning the threaded tubular member 2 it is obvious that the collar-engaging devices may be moved outward to distend the stock. By providing the loops 10 it is obvious that the clamping-screws need not pass through or puncture the material of the stock, as is necessary with other devices of a somewhat similar nature. It is obvious that one of the collar-engaging devices may have its branches or members rigidly secured to the two body-tubes, the other one being slidable.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A device for the purpose specied, comprising two tubular body portions, collar-engaging devices having sliding connection with said body portions, curved loops on the ends of said collar-engaging devices, and clampingscrews for operating in said loops.

2. A device for the purpose specified, comprising two tubular body portions, one of said body portions having' right and left interior screw-threads, collar-engaging devices at the ends of the body members, each consisting of two connected sections, a section of each being screw-threaded for engaging with the IOO thread in the tubular body member, the other member of one of the engaging devices being slidable in the other tubular body member, curved loops on the ends oi' said sliding devices, the said loops having tapped socket members, and clamping-screws engaging inv said socket members and having enlarged inner ends.

3. A device for ,the purpose specified, comprising two tubular body members, a crossbar rigidly connected to one of the body members and through which the other bodyT member is slidable, the said slidable member being interiorly screw-threaded, substantially U-shaped collar-engaging devices, one member of each collar engaging device being threaded to engage the thread Within said slid- 

